Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply, the Crimson debaters attacked world government as a panacea which could only take people's minds off the "serious" problems confronting the world today. They also pointed out the "danger" that a strong federal world government might well become an instrument of international oppression, as there would be no force which could contain it within "reasonable" bounds...
Every Saturday some hundred musicians don red ties and coats which they have paid for themselves and head for Soldiers Field to rehearse. There, out of their own pockets, they buy lunch. A half-hour later, each man equipped with his own personal instrument, and reading from sheet-music he has bought, the Harvard Band marches into the Stadium to what is certain to be one of the more resonant cheers of the afternoon...
...pocket model was developed by Dr. O. G. Landsverk and two aids as a wartime device (e.g., to protect troops in such hazardous spots as blasted Hiroshima). The military now thinks it is all right for civilians to know about it. The instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move...
When Professor White suddenly lights on a student's deeply personal love letter, he uses it as a real instrument of torture on the boy who wrote it and the girl it was written to. He finally forces the boy to read it aloud in the girl's presence and his own. Filled with shame and guilt, the girl proceeds to run away from college; but tragedy is averted and even the professor winds up more human...
...hypospray blasts a drug through the pores, using air pressure of 25 to 125 pounds per square inch. The gun opening of the instrument is one-fiftieth of the diameter of the finest hypodermic needle. Each injection is loaded in a cartridge. Doctors who have tested it think it will be just the thing for insulin, penicillin, vaccines and a variety of other injections...